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I have worked with photography for about 5 years and I have worked with manipulating pictures and fixing pictures all the time. I think it is a lot of fun and you can be very creative with it. I use a green screen to do a lot of my studio type shots for photo shoot and I take pictures that have damage to them and fix them and manipulate them to make them look better. In an after school program a few years ago I had students work with some pictures to see if they could make changes to them and it was a challenge for some but after a few tries they were getting the hang of doing it and found it to be fun.

I've done several photo manipulation projects in my classroom thus far. My favorite has been the one that involves the community where we took pictures of little siblings on Back to School Night in front of the Chroma Key Screen and photoshopping them into various kid-friendly backgrounds and returning them as gifts for attending Back to School Night. All students involved LOVED it.

Also the Photoshop students had to write a letter describing what they did to the photoshop pictures before returning the printed picture + the letter to the parent that brought the little sibling. This project showcased to the community that our school was doing amazing projects even though we are a Title 1 / Program Improvement school.

I've partnered with the art teacher at our elementary school for a photography/photo editing grant. Because of the cost of licenses, we chose to use Pixlr as our photo editing software. Our students, 4th and 5th graders, were very enthusiastic about this project; which definitely made me enthusiastic. After taking a Photoshop course, I'm looking forward to this school term as we continue this project.

My experience with the image manipulation project was a positive one. My project was to create a an image of a celebrity or political figure who is transported to another era in time. My project is geared towards middle and high school students. The project was successful in that I was able to combine all of the images in order to create the composite. The challenges were that the selection around the images could have been better.

After I did one of the beginner adobe photoshop courses late last year (2013) I was inspired to introduce my students to the BAM project. This was very achievable work to do in a short period of time for beginners.

Since I have not taught Photoshop in the past, I believe the project that I have created will be engaging and fun for students to complete. This project allowed me to integrate several features while developing my sample project, and it allowed me to process copyright guidelines throughout the process of creation which integrates a high volume of creativity throughout the activities.

My project is a simple way of engaging with student in the first few weeks of the course. Find out what their key goal is in the course they are studying . They create a simple PS project (image with text) to creatively communicate this.

I teach at an all women's college in Wisconsin and have both traditional and non-traditional students with a variety of learning styles and experiences with technology. To assist my students I created a basic introduction to PhotoShop focusing on layers and selection tools. In class I demonstrate a basic overview of the things they will be doing. In addition, I hand out a se tof step by step instructions. Students are told they can "play" to complete the assignment, use the step by step directions, or a combination.

Non-traditional students do not always like to "play" and explore -- they want to know what they have to do, which is why I created the directions.

I have one assignment in my Photography class where the students must photograph the sky, then change the color(s), add zoom effects (to make it appear as if the clouds are coming towards you), and make any other adjustments to create an enhanced, dramatic sky scene. They must turn in their original sky photo, along with the enhanced one. When we view the images, they must describe to the class what they did to make the creation they made. They seem to enjoy this because it's sort of like "playing with Mother Nature."